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...justice to the men who spent seven hours counting the votes last Friday night, I wish to explain how the special count was carried on. There were four tabulation sheets. As each ballot was read off, the teller in charge of the Bryan-Hughes list, for instance, would note down whether the voter preferred Bryan or Hughes, on the assumption that, if there had been only those two candidates, the voters who preferred Bryan would have voted for him and those who preferred Hughes would have voted for him. Similarly for the four other possible combinations of nominees. The results...
...notice in Saturday morning's CRIMSON, that a victory is ascribed to Johnson over Bryan in Friday's straw ballot. I wish to take issue with this misleading statement. As a matter of fact, Bryan received a big majority over Johnson from the Democratic voters. It is ludicrous, to say the least, to count Republican votes for Democratic nominees, unless a Democrat is given first or second place. To force a Republican to vote for two Democrats is something quite apart from actual politics; nor are Democrats supposed to vote for Republicans in an actual election. The mere fact that...
...result of the straw ballot for the election of president of the United States, held under the auspices of the Harvard Political Club in the CRIMSON office yesterday, resulted as follows...
...availability, his ability to win votes, General Woodford said, everyone of the 15,000,000 policy holders of the insurance companies of America would gratefully cast his ballot for Hughes, and he is the only candidate who can certainly carry the 39 electoral votes of New York so necessary to Republican success...
Provision on the ballot will be made for men to indicate if they favor a third term for President Roosevelt, and if they do, how many will vote...